Mashable is reporting from a verified source that Amazon Kindle Fire Pre-orders are up to 250,000 in just 5 days.  Definitely an impressive mark.  The Kindle Fire is set to release on November 15.  A great cheap alternative to most tablets but definitely not a replacement for the iPad – Via Mashable

Kindle Touch – $99

Kindle Touch 3g – $149

Kindle Wifi – $79

Developing Story

Just a few days after HP announced the fire sale on HP Touchpad, hackers have been able to get Android 2.2.1 running on it. This bad boy started at 499 but the price has ran up to 860 so far.  Does it have potential to sell over 1000? Why not just buy a XOOM running Android 3.0?

Yes Yes we are all excited, at least the ones that have been able to pick up an HP Touchpad for 99 bucks.   I didn’t get it for 99 but definitely close enough. ($108)  I picked two for family members and two for development.  HP has said they will any production of devices but they also said WebOS is not dead.  It not clear what exactly HP plans on doing for WebOS but they might as well donate it and make it opensource platform.  I would hate to see a pretty well developed phone operating system go to waste.

Didn’t think touchpad was worth the 99 bucks for a dead technology? think again.  HP spent $328 to produce each device, this doesn’t include all the R&D and marketing that took place.  Also the specs on the device are comparable to any other tablet device that are currently available for 500+.

Specs revisted

• 9.7 LED display
• Qualcomm snapdragon dual-CPU 1.2 GHz
• 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM
• 16Gb or 32GB

Good news if they do kill it off WebOS
- Hackers are in the works of getting an Android build on the touchpad – http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327.  Current development is to port Android to the device.  Many have requested that a emulator for Android be created like on the BB Playbook.